Wow!!! This week has been full of spiritual feasting!!!! I will give you a quick overview about what happened this week, then I will go into details.
-Zone Conference – All about personal conversion
-Clifford Dawson’s Baptism!!!!!!!
-Priesthood Meeting – Pres. Uchtdorf, Elder Neil Anderson, and Robert C. Oaks
-Stake Conference - Again Pres. Uchtdorf, Elder Neil Anderson, and Robert C. Oaks, plus Sister Lant of the Primary, and Sister Dibb of the Young Womens
NEED I SAY MORE!!!!!!
*Zone Conference*
It was amazing. It was all about personal conversion because that’s what President thinks that we all need. We can find, we can teach, and now we just really need to know about all that teach and tell people. It was really, really good. President gave a talk about the Apostasy and the Restoration. You will all have to go to his home coming in Colorado, I am going for sure. He has been called of God, and you can tell by the way that he speaks. It was amazing. The Zone Leaders talked about Christ like attributes, and how important they are to posses in our conversion. Then The best thing ever happened. The Assistants, (my dad and E. Ayers) really committed us hard to pray again and again about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith. Then they did the most amazing thing ever. They played the bit of the Restoration DVD where the first vision happens, but instead of playing the sound they played Jon Schmidt’s Baptism hymn. YOU COULD TASTE THE SPIRIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so powerful. We are going to do the same thing at Tom’s Baptism this week while they are changing! It is going to be amazing.
*Clifford’s Baptism*
I have never seen a more well attended baptism in my life!! There were so many missionaries there, and we were even missing two that couldn’t make it (E. Hastings, and E. McIntosh)! It was a marvelous day, and Clifford was beaming! I got to say the opening prayer, and E. Garcia gave a talk. It was a really spiritual service. I will be sending lots of pictures today if I have time to. He got confirmed that same night, and you could tell that he was on cloud 9. Mavis was all a flutter too. They are now looking forward to the Temple, and I hope that all goes well, and that they make it there. They really do deserve it!!!! I had a great time, it was a great day. Tom came as well, and he really, really loved it! It was great to see Clifford please his heavenly father in such a great way. The Heavens were smiling on him that day, I know it!!!
*Priesthood Meeting and Stake Conference*
Powerful!!!! All they did was really answer questions that leaders had submitted from all over the UK and Ireland. It was a great broadcast, and I really learned a lot. I love Pres. Uchtdorf, he always speaks with power and authority, and the past two days were no exception. He really laid it down and taught well. He was really funny too, as apostles usually are. He answered all the questions very well, and when he got to one about Pornography his whole tone, and demeanor changed. You could tell that that subject is a very tender and serious one. He really put out very heartfelt caution against that evil that is plaguing the world. Neil L. Anderson is not the shy junior apostle that he has been putting himself off as. He is an apostle called of God, and he is powerful as well. He really delivered an amazing message about the financial state of the world, and how if we pay our tithing then everything will be ok!! It was really amazing. Robert C. Oaks slammed missionary work HARDCORE!!!! I love him. He is really amazing as well. He kinda rebuked the UK and told them the things that have to happen if they want this place to boom. Basically they have to do the missionary work. All the Missionaries in the room were shining. He really talked us up and built us up, and told the members that they need to help us! It was a great conference, and I got to see a lot of old friends from Chorley. It was a great weekend, and I have a ton of notes. Most of all I could really just feel of the love that the Lord has for this country and how much love the First Presidency has for us as well. Tom really loved the conference, he said that it was very powerful. He really enjoyed hearing from apostles. I love this church!!!! I love the organization of the church, and the fact that we get to hear from such wonderful men all the time!!!! It is a great time to be alive, and to be serving a mission. I have had so many spiritual experiences in the last year it is hard to know where to start. I am going to just have to go through all my journals at the end and think about it all. That is going to take me DAYS!!!!!
Ok, anyways, I am doing really well. E. Driscoll has been sick all week so that has been tough, but we are still pushing along. We got flogged a lot this week (either porter or troy call it punted). We are still happy and having a great time. Last week for p-day we had a zone activity. We ended up learning something called the Hawka, which is a really cool Maori dance. There is an elder in the zone from Australia and he is Samoan so he taught it to us. It really united our zone, and so that has helped the week. We are seeing miracles in the zone- I love it! You will be getting the video of that sometime soon.
Anyways I have to run. We are going to go have another Zone Activity so that will be great. I love you all, and I hope that you have had a good week. Keep studying and praying, and I promise that I will do the same. Tom’s baptism is this week so keep him in your prayers. He is so prepared there will be no problems, but you do never know. I love you all. Have a great week!
Love,
EJ
#1 me and Clifford (after the baptism)
#2 Mavis and Clifford and E. Naylor
#3 All the Missionaries (missing 3 that have gone home, and 2 that couldn't make it)
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